Abd al-Khaliq Adib

Abd al-Khaliq Adib (1652-) was a general of the Safavid Empire.

Biography
Abd al-Khaliq Adib was an ethnic Azerbaijani Shiite Muslim who was born in Baku in 1652. In 1700 he was recruited as a General of the Safavid Empire after having served as a sergeant in the Persian Army, and was considered to have been a soldier from birth. Damat Baghdadi, an assassin of Ottoman Empire, attempted to kill him in 1704, but barely escaped on his horse.